{"id":8750,"date":"2011-12-28T06:23:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T13:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=8750"},"modified":"2011-12-20T23:40:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T06:40:15","slug":"norichika-aoki-the-newest-milwaukee-brewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/norichika-aoki-the-newest-milwaukee-brewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Norichika Aoki &#8211; The newest Milwaukee Brewer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8751\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000574aokiSwallows.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8751\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000574aokiSwallows-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Norichika Aoki Milwaukee Brewers Japanese player\" title=\"Norichika Aoki Yakult Swallows Milwaukee Brewers\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000574aokiSwallows-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000574aokiSwallows-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000574aokiSwallows.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norichika Aoki hits for the Swallows in 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Milwaukee Brewers won the right to negotiate a contract with center fielder Norichika Aoki who has been playing for the Yakult Swallows, a Japanese team located in Tokyo. The Brewers have until mid January to work out a deal with the 29-year-old Aoki, a three-time Central League batting champion. The news reports point out that Aoki batted .292 with four home runs and 44 RBIs in 144 games for the Swallows this past season. That doesn&#8217;t sound like much to get excited about. However, Aoki had an off year (even though the Swallows had a great year, for once, in 2011) that the media isn&#8217;t pointing out. In the six prior seasons he averaged about .340 with about 15 home runs, 64 RBIs (on a lousy team with fewer games than MLB), and 20+ stolen bases. In 2010 he hit .358!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8752\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000650Norichika-Aoki.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8752\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000650Norichika-Aoki-526x800.jpg\" alt=\"Norichika Aoki 23 yakult swallows\" title=\"Norichika Aoki\" width=\"526\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000650Norichika-Aoki-526x800.jpg 526w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000650Norichika-Aoki-164x250.jpg 164w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000650Norichika-Aoki.jpg 656w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norichika Aoki in center field for the Yakult Swallows<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I went to the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/yakult-swallows-part-2\/>Swallows&#8217; game<\/a>, Aoki batted third and many, many fans were wearing his jersey. I hope the Brewers sign him and he does well for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Brewers won the right to negotiate a contract with center fielder Norichika Aoki who has been playing for the Yakult Swallows, a Japanese team located in Tokyo. The Brewers have until mid January to work out a deal with the 29-year-old Aoki, a three-time Central League batting champion. The news reports point out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8754,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions\/8754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}